Arhythmia
Routines, rhythms and the systems we use to keep things moving at the right pace.
Seamus Byrne
Founder and Head of Content at Byteside. Brings two decades of experience covering tech, digital culture, and their impacts on society.
Byteside Podcast
Your amazing dystopian flying family drone
New NBN, TIO complaints, Ring's household flying drone, Shazam for plants, Nvidia dramas, esports and Diablo. A lot in this episode!
Culture
BlizzCon will be BlizzConline in February 2021
BlizzCon won't be happening in 2020, but we've now got official word that a special BlizzConline will take place early in the new year.
Byteside Podcast
Maybe fibre is better?
We delve into pre-order shenanigans, Xbox buying Bethesda, the NBN fibre renaissance, and the re-release of HeroQuest.
Games
HeroQuest is getting a faithful, modern, crowdfunded re-release
The countdown is over and the secret is revealed, offering fans a faithful re-release of classic HeroQuest with some modern upgrades.
It's all about the Game Pass
Forcing exclusivity onto Bethesda, or iD, or Arkane, just isn’t Microsoft’s games strategy anymore. For Microsoft, owning games studios now serves its core long-term ambition of building out a dazzlingly good value subscription service through Game Pass.
Games
How the Microsoft / Bethesda deal fits its Game Pass ambitions perfectly
Microsoft wants the best new games available on Xbox Game Pass the day they launch. Playable not just on Xbox, but PC and in the cloud.
Media
Reality show to send winner to the ISS in 2023
Ready to become a Space Hero? A reality show is planning on turning its winner into an astronaut with a visit to the ISS.
Games
Please, Avalon Hill, be making a HeroQuest Legacy?
There's a countdown to a new HeroQuest game so now we're in love with how good a HeroQuest Legacy game would be.
Games
Shadowlands Afterlives animated shorts: ranked
We rank the World of Warcraft Shadowlands Afterlives animated shorts because that's what websites do. Now let's get ready for pre-patch!
Big Ideas
Cat photos matter
Musings on the loss of a beloved cat, and the wish to find that one perfect image that shows us who she was. But is that even possible?
Cat photos matter
The greatest cliche of the internet is too many cat photos. It partly made me want to be careful about overloading my own social media with cats. Until our beloved Sylvie suddenly died.